Jay Rabinowitz

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Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor. He is most frequently associated with the films of Jim Jarmusch and Darren Aronofsky.  Rabinowitz studied at the New York University, where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986). He is credited as the assistant editor for several films in the next years, including Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989-edited by Melody London).  Starting with Night on Earth (1991), Rabinowitz has been the editor for seven of Jarmusch's films: Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Limits of Control (2009). Mr. Rabinowitz' editing for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) won best editing awards from the Online Film Critics Society. He was also nominated for the Online Film Critics' award for Mr. Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006).

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Additional Editing:
2002  Secretary
2024  IF

Apprentice Sound Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
2002  Secretary
2024  IF

Assistant Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
1989  Mystery Train
2002  Secretary
2024  IF

Assistant Sound Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
1989  Mystery Train
1990  Alice
2002  Secretary
2024  IF

Consulting Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
1989  Mystery Train
1990  Alice
2002  Secretary
2021  Aleph
2024  IF

Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
1989  Mystery Train
1990  Alice
1991  Night on Earth
1992  Last Supper
1993  When Pigs Fly
1994  Jimmy Hollywood
1994  The Bowery
1995  Clean, Shaven
1995  Dead Man
1996  Mother Night
1997  Year of the Horse
1998  Affliction
1998  Richard Lester!
1999  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000  Homicide: The Movie
2000  Requiem for a Dream
2002  8 Mile
2002  Bomb the System
2002  Secretary
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2004  Coffee and Cigarettes
2004  The Stepford Wives
2005  Broken Flowers
2006  The Fountain
2007  I'm Not There
2008  Explicit Ills
2009  The Limits of Control
2009  Women Without Men
2011  Rampart
2011  The Adjustment Bureau
2011  The Tree of Life
2012  First Point
2014  Rosewater
2016  Junction 48
2018  Boy Erased
2019  White Echo
2020  Irresistible
2021  Aleph
2021  Oslo
2021  The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2022  Beast
2024  IF
????  O'Dessa

Music Editor:
1987  Dead of Winter
1989  Mystery Train
1990  Alice
1991  Night on Earth
1992  Last Supper
1993  When Pigs Fly
1994  Jimmy Hollywood
1994  The Bowery
1995  Clean, Shaven
1995  Dead Man
1996  Mother Night
1997  Year of the Horse
1998  Affliction
1998  Richard Lester!
1999  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000  Homicide: The Movie
2000  Requiem for a Dream
2002  8 Mile
2002  Bomb the System
2002  Secretary
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2004  Coffee and Cigarettes
2004  The Stepford Wives
2005  Broken Flowers
2006  The Fountain
2007  I'm Not There
2008  Explicit Ills
2009  The Limits of Control
2009  Women Without Men
2011  Rampart
2011  The Adjustment Bureau
2011  The Tree of Life
2012  First Point
2014  Rosewater
2016  Junction 48
2018  Boy Erased
2019  White Echo
2020  Irresistible
2021  Aleph
2021  Oslo
2021  The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2022  Beast
2024  IF
????  O'Dessa

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